Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.
I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
